Union External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj has assured Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda that the people hailing from Haryana are safe in Iraq and members of their families should not worry about them.
She also said that the Central Government was trying its best to bring back to India all those Indians who are stranded in troubled Iraq.
Swaraj had rang up Hooda in response to a letter written to her by him to enquire about safety of people hailing from Haryana and residing in Iraq.
Hooda had, with his letter, also sent a list of those persons of Haryana whose relations had contacted the specially set up control room of the State Government in Chandigarh to know about the well being of those now living in Iraq.
It may be recalled that Hooda had said that the State Government being very much concerned about the well being of the people of Haryana in Iraq and if needed the Government was prepared to bear the entire expenditure to bring them back to homeland so as to ensure their safety.
Haryana Government is constantly in touch with the External Affairs Ministry and maintaining a close vigil over the prevailing situation in trouble in trouble torn Iraq.